Monday, January 25, 1999
Hierarchy and hypocrisy
The eight widows sat huddled in the cold, braving chilly winds while waiting for a piece of metal. Their husbands had taken bullets in their chests and fallen fighting for the country.
Cricket at silly point
Australian Kerry Packer is credited with having reinvented the game of cricket for the contemporary cricket fan. By whittling it down to a 48-over, one-day affair, and getting players out of their regulation whites into more television-friendly attire.
Seeking out the liberal Hindu vote
It is an irony of our times that L. K. Advani and Sonia Gandhi are talking in the same vein today. Advani had said not long ago that India is secular because of Hinduism.
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